Recently, municipal ordinances regarding Satochi landscapes conservation have been frequently enacted, and expectations for these ordinances have been increasing. Improvement of the implementation of these municipal ordinances can be regarded as urgent and important. As a first step toward improvement, this paper attempts to give a detailed picture of these ordinances at regional scale by classification based on the contents of the documents of in these ordinances. As a result, three different types were distinguished. The first type consisted of ordinances enacted recently, in which a target site with farmland and forest and the community participation system as implementation measure were described (Type A). It was considered that this type of ordinance responded to the problems on conserving farmland and forest integrally. The second type consisted of ordinances in which government-initiated implementation measures regarding the maintenance of forests or agricultural lands were described (Type B). The third type consisted of ordinances without a definite description of the target site and implementation measures (Type C). It was also suggested that ordinances of Type A and Type B had different institutional issues. It was considered that Type A and Type B contributed to different aspect of Satochi landscape conservation and that a resolution of issues of each type was needed.
